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It’s for siting documents, fingerprints and iris scan. And payment.blahblahpapaya wrote: ↑Fri, 01 Dec 2023 9:18 amHello all, my wife's PR application has just been approved, and we are going to ICA to complete the formalities soon... For those who have done this before, what kind of questions do they usually ask?
I suppose the digital approach completely eliminates the inevitable bias during interviews, though I would've been interested in what standard questions got asked. Did you get any questions along the order of "What's your standard order at a kopi tiam?"sundaymorningstaple wrote: ↑Mon, 04 Dec 2023 8:35 pmI believe Sg stopping using the PR interview technique in the late 1990's or shortly after the millennium. I got mine in 1995 and did have the interview before being granted PR (two officers in a small interview room for around 1.5 hrs if I remember correctly. Even then, while the issuance of PR was a go down to the ICA building, there was not any formalities as you aren't giving up anything. Bit different when giving up your former citizenship.
In reality, probably less than a hour (mine was a special case when they found out my assimilation here after being here for 13 years) spent well over 45 minutes gossiping and giving them a blow by blow of my activities considering for the most part of the 1st 8 years were spent offshore in the oilfields. That also was back in the day of physical paper applications, etc as well. The electronic revolution made face-to-face virtually obsolete. Covid and WFH proved that it was also more cost effective and efficient in most cases.
I had tonomadinsg wrote: ↑Wed, 06 Dec 2023 9:32 amI suppose the digital approach completely eliminates the inevitable bias during interviews, though I would've been interested in what standard questions got asked. Did you get any questions along the order of "What's your standard order at a kopi tiam?"sundaymorningstaple wrote: ↑Mon, 04 Dec 2023 8:35 pmI believe Sg stopping using the PR interview technique in the late 1990's or shortly after the millennium. I got mine in 1995 and did have the interview before being granted PR (two officers in a small interview room for around 1.5 hrs if I remember correctly. Even then, while the issuance of PR was a go down to the ICA building, there was not any formalities as you aren't giving up anything. Bit different when giving up your former citizenship.
In reality, probably less than a hour (mine was a special case when they found out my assimilation here after being here for 13 years) spent well over 45 minutes gossiping and giving them a blow by blow of my activities considering for the most part of the 1st 8 years were spent offshore in the oilfields. That also was back in the day of physical paper applications, etc as well. The electronic revolution made face-to-face virtually obsolete. Covid and WFH proved that it was also more cost effective and efficient in most cases.
at your last line. At the time of my PR interview I'd already been here 13 years, been married to a lovely Tamil/Singaporean lady for 12 of them (still married to 39 years later) and had been, at that point in time, part time acting with the old SBC (-->TCS-->MediaCorp today) as a part time actor for 7 years (I spent a total of 18 years doing Mandarin Drama Serials). So in answer to the question, when they saw the letter listing my appearances in Chinese Serials from SBC the question regarding food didn't really come up as we had all kinds of interest stuff to gossip about (thus the length of the interview in my case). 
Haha thanks for the amusing read; had no idea you were an actor! So the interview was really a formality for you. I just wondered if they grilled people to make sure they were sufficiently integrated.sundaymorningstaple wrote: ↑Wed, 06 Dec 2023 4:50 pmI had tonomadinsg wrote: ↑Wed, 06 Dec 2023 9:32 amI suppose the digital approach completely eliminates the inevitable bias during interviews, though I would've been interested in what standard questions got asked. Did you get any questions along the order of "What's your standard order at a kopi tiam?"sundaymorningstaple wrote: ↑Mon, 04 Dec 2023 8:35 pmI believe Sg stopping using the PR interview technique in the late 1990's or shortly after the millennium. I got mine in 1995 and did have the interview before being granted PR (two officers in a small interview room for around 1.5 hrs if I remember correctly. Even then, while the issuance of PR was a go down to the ICA building, there was not any formalities as you aren't giving up anything. Bit different when giving up your former citizenship.
In reality, probably less than a hour (mine was a special case when they found out my assimilation here after being here for 13 years) spent well over 45 minutes gossiping and giving them a blow by blow of my activities considering for the most part of the 1st 8 years were spent offshore in the oilfields. That also was back in the day of physical paper applications, etc as well. The electronic revolution made face-to-face virtually obsolete. Covid and WFH proved that it was also more cost effective and efficient in most cases.
